1. Homework due first lesson back after half-term break!
1) Create a detailed timeline of the events in Russia during 1917.
2) Go into Mr. Walker’s Russia Folder
Go to Unit 2 – Causes and Impact of the Civil War,
Open Lesson 1 – “What were the causes of the Russian Civil War?”
Print off flow chart – Opposition to Bolsheviks onto A3 paper!
There will be a warning issued for anyone who fails to have both of these done!

3. Assessment pass back: “Two sources that show different views about the storming of the Winter Palace in October 1917”
Strengths
Making inferences from the sources
Judging the purpose of both of the sources
Improvements
Judging the reliability of the sources! A lot of students stated that the historian would be less reliable because he was writing 60 years after the events of the October Revolution! While this is true, it is generally assumed that historians of modern history (1500-present) have weighed multiple pieces of evidence to reach their conclusion! This would make a historian’s work less biased and therefore more reliable!
Using more of your own knowledge about the situation in Russia during October 1917

4. Determining Bias in Sources: Steps to follow
1) Briefly summarize the information in the source, including names, events, and dates
2) Who produced the source? Who did they produce the source for? Why did they produce the source?
3) Was the producer present at the events described? How does he know about the events?
4) Was the source produced at the time of the events described? Or later? If later, how much later?
Make sure to consider who is producing the source! If it is an historian writing about modern history than this doesn’t matter quite as much!
5) Do you think the producer was neutral about the events he described? Or was he influenced by outside factors when creating the source? Support your answer with details from the text and your own knowledge of the historical period.
6) Was the producer trying to persuade his audience? Or was he simply reporting the facts? What specific words in the source let you know?
7) What is your overall assessment of this source? Is it trustworthy and/or biased? Why do you think that?

5. What were the causes of the Russian Civil War?
L/O
To analyse the reasons why the Russian Civil War started.

6. Starter
Use your knowledge to think of what it might be like in Russia after the October Revolution.
What do you think may be some of the reasons for the Russian Civil War?
Who do you think might decide to fight the Bolsheviks?
Who has the most to lose with a Bolshevik Russia?

7. Model answer to “Why did Civil War break out in Russia in 1918?”
Look at p 59 and 60 of Russia in Transition
Can you see how the second answer is a stronger one?
Pick out the main reasons the response mentions and write them down.

8. Look at the Flow Chart you all printed out on A3 paper!
You need to add detail and specific evidence to support each box.
Use the information from pages of “Russia in Transition.”

9. Opposition to Bolsheviks
Distribution
Violence on the Street
Food Shortages / Economic Hardship
Inflation
Grain Supplies
Opposition to Bolsheviks
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Constituent Assembly
Dissatisfaction and Challenge
Lenin’s Reforms

10. Opposition to Bolsheviks
Distribution
Violence on the Street
Food Shortages / Economic Hardship
Inflation
Grain Supplies
Opposition to Bolsheviks
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Constituent Assembly
Dissatisfaction and Challenge
Lenin’s Reforms

11. Can you identify one issue that is significant both economically and politically?

12. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Complete the following flow chart in as many ways as possible… You should be able to explain a number of effects of the treaty.
Treaty of B/L
Civil War
How many different routes can you create between these two events?

13. Plenary Discuss with your neighbour…
What was the most important factor in causing the Russian Civil War.
Lenin’s reforms (November and December Decrees) OR
The Constituent Assembly
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

14. Homework (Due next lesson)
1. Complete from VLE – Russia Quiz 2
2. Read pages of WJEC “Immediate Problems facing Lenin following the seizure of power”
Complete questions #1-3 on page 84:
1) Describe the role of the Sovnarkom.
2) Why do you think Lenin felt it necessary to dissolve the Constituent Assembly so soon after its election?
3) Explain why the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was unpopular with many Russians.